Daybreak: Bibi the Shuttling Diplomat

• President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu talk about the talks. [JPost]

• Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mubarak talk about the talks. Oh, and everyone is lowering expectations. [NYT]

• Tacit U.S. acceptance of Israeli nuclear weapons despite the Mideast’s ostensibly being a nuke-free zone has made it more difficult to fight Iranian and also Egyptian proliferation. [WP]

• Three assailants vandalized a synagogue in Nîmes, France, and hurled tear gas at a senior Jewish man, on Sunday. This was two days after a Jewish man was stabbed in front of a synagogue in downtown Strasbourg. [NYT]

• In a column critical of Obama, Jackson Diehl notes, regarding Israel (and Afghanistan), “Quiet diplomacy by the administration’s special envoys … has achieved what presidential lectures did not.” [WP]

• Elie Wiesel will have lunch at the White House today. And you thought the “charm offensive” was just a series of coincidences! [JTA]

WAIT, WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY TO COMMENT?
Tablet is committed to bringing you the best, smartest, most enlightening and entertaining reporting and writing on Jewish life, all free of charge. We take pride in our community of readers, and are thrilled that you choose to engage with us in a way that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. But the Internet, for all of its wonders, poses challenges to civilized and constructive discussion, allowing vocal—and, often, anonymous—minorities to drag it down with invective (and worse). Starting today, then, we are asking people who'd like to post comments on the site to pay a nominal fee—less a paywall than a gesture of your own commitment to the cause of great conversation. All proceeds go to helping us bring you the ambitious journalism that brought you here in the first place.

I NEED TO BE HEARD! BUT I DONT WANT TO PAY.
Readers can still interact with us free of charge via Facebook, Twitter, and our other social media channels, or write to us at letters@tabletmag.com. Each week, we’ll select the best letters and publish them in a new letters to the editor feature on the Scroll.

We hope this new largely symbolic measure will help us create a more pleasant and cultivated environment for all of our readers, and, as always, we thank you deeply for your support.

Are we supposed to be impressed with whom the President invites for lunch? What does this have to do with the reality of his policies? He must be worried about the November elections and where the DNC money will come from.

Bibi Netanyahu now leads Obama in several national polls to take the U.S. Presidency from him in the 2012 election. While Bibi can prove he is a U.S. citizen because he lived in Elkins Park, PA for many years, if in fact that should be disputed he holds a U.S. passport.

Bibi pledges to give Americans the same healthcare his dad gets, who just turned 100.

Bibi will furthermore, add 500 million new settlements across the United States to get the U.S. out of its construction slump.

He will share Washington D.C. with the Palestinians, so they can use it as their capital for a future Palestinian state and the Obama’s would not have to feel they have to leave Washington.

Bibi will have 3 million Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank come to the U.S. to campaign for immigration reform.

Bibi has asked ACORN to go to Israel to register Likud supporters so they can vote in the upcoming U.S. election.

He will continue to require that all CIA personnel practice their Tennis.

He will continue to set Tariffs on Gefilte Fish from Illinois to Israel, not recognizing the state as legally part of the U.S. & part of the Free Trade Agreement.

Bibi will bid space on the security fence between Mexico & the U.S. to major world wide corporations for advertising purposes to pay off the large U.S debt.

Bibi will settle the squabble between Democrats & Republicans by offering them a two state solutions. Whereas all blue states became Democrat & all Red states Republican, so the Republicans can hang the 10 commandments in the courts & the Democrats do not have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

He will allow Hillary Clinton to continue her unwavering support for Israel as a volunteer at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

He will ask Richard Goldstone to investigate the large number of civilian casualties that accrue in Washington DC by government personnel firing missiles disguised as automobiles.

He will move Teva Pharmaceutical to Mexico, so the drug cartel can manufacture drugs legally.

Bibi has started proximity talks between NFL’s commissioner Roger Goodell to build a stadium in Washington DC for the Congressional Bull, & Tony Perez who is CBS’ Fantasy Baseball Commissioner to start a U.S. Presidential Fantasy training camp for Obama. He has also taped
Rod Blagojevich to sell the stadium seats.

Bibi will return all territory falling back from Louisiana to what Jefferson described as enough territory to satisfy America’s expanding population “ For a 100 perhaps a 1,000 generations”.

He will release all 2 million prisoners’ held in U.S. detention facilities to ease tension & build confidence among America’s neighborhoods.

Because of reading your blog, I unquestioned to scribble my own. I had not in any degree been interested in keeping a blog until I aphorism how beneficial yours was, then I was inspired!

Name (required)Email (required, will not be published)Website (optional)

Message

2000

Your comment may be no longer than 2,000 characters, approximately 400 words. HTML tags are not permitted, nor are more than two URLs per comment. We reserve the right to delete inappropriate comments.